Business and Sports
Strive to Keep it Alive
In the first week of the season, the story of the NFL games was come-from-behind victories. Exciting games to watch, but frustrating if your team was not the one that came back. You would think, or at least I think, that once you have the lead, your momentum would carry you, and you hold onto…
Read MoreBetter Than the First Day of School
Yesterday was the First Football Sunday of the 96th season of the National Football League. I took the whole day off from writing my next book. The working title is Pitch Perfect: Speak to Grow Your Business in 7 Simple Steps. Helping people find their voice and toot their own horn about their business is…
Read MoreLeaving It All Out There On the Field (Ice)!
Now that the football season is no longer inspiring my Sundays, I turned to Olympic figure skating! I find the couples’ synchronized twizzles (multi-rotational one foot turns) in ice dancing moved me to instant tears, just as the running back who twizzles away from four or five 300-pound linemen to run the length of the…
Read MoreDon't Let Your "Offense" Get Beaten by the Noise!
Super Bowl 2014: My man, Peyton Manning, goes down in spectacular fashion. After breaking all-time offensive records in the regular season—touchdowns thrown (55) and yards thrown (over 5400), it didn’t matter. He gets rattled and rolled by the best defense in the NFL, and one that may go down in history as one of…
Read MoreMarch Madness: Expect the Unexpected
It’s that time of year again, when I become March Madness Girl, watching many games a day, especially the college women being necessarily ROUGH! And so much diversity! There was a SHORT player! Heather Butler, the star Junior player from a school called UT Martin, is 5’4” tops! The sportscaster said she is probably 5’2”—how…
Read More“You Go Girls!”: U.S. Women Take the Gold
So I’m sure many of you watched the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympic Games on Friday night, and I’m sure many of you were as underwhelmed as I was. Even if I felt like being generous, what chance did the Brits have after the Chinese choreographed 10,000 people in perfect harmony in Beijing four years…
Read More3 Stooges Alive and Well on the Diamond!
I really try to avoid watching baseball, baseball highlights, commentary, or anything to do with baseball—until the World Series. However, with 162 games in the regular season, it’s really hard to do. And we are only halfway done . . .so there I am, watching SportsCenter, when something “baseball” caught my eye. It was the…
Read MoreSports: The Only True Meritocracy
The NBA Finals were truly exciting and gratifying to watch. Both teams really played “team.” They passed the ball many times before the player with the best (unimpeded) “look” took the shot to make the basket. (How do you like my oh-so tech language? 😉 And the team that played that way the most, won. …
Read MoreMen & Women: Can We Talk Sports?
For now, I have transformed from the Funny Football Female to the Bawdy Basketball Broad — at least for the next 2 weeks during these NBA Championship Finals. The NFL season is still about 90 days away (sigh) and I long for some “necessary roughness.” And I’m not alone. While 43.2% of NFL fans are…
Read MoreThunder: Always Be Closing
So I must admit I am loving these NBA Finals—every night! Immediate gratification—no week of waiting in between. And I’m fascinated by the Spurs/Thunder match up: age and experience vs. youth and unpredictability. 3 lessons we can learn from the Thunder victory in Game 4 the other night: 1. It’s all about closing. Or Always…
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